Baby Sitting Social Hour

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Baby Sitting Social Hour

This activity is to coordinate the baby-sitting of Nestlings and Skimmers during Social Hour. Children who are 5 and older participate in the Afternoon Children’s Activities and are not your responsibility. Baby-sitting takes place at the Children's Barn, Saturday through Friday. It starts at 5:30 when Social Hour begins and runs until dinner. All parents of little ones should take turns helping out with this job, so that every adult has a chance to go to Adult Social Hour if s/he wishes. You are not being asked to be the sole baby-sitters, but rather to organize all the appropriate parents into a schedule for the week.

Ask the Chairs for a list of parents with children under the age of 5 years old. Need list of Nestlings and Skimmers sent with the boat letter. Make schedule beforehand and give out on Star, each family being assigned one shift. Contact these people via a post card, letter or email to set up a time to organize the cooperative soon after arrival at Star. Get the name of Children's Afternoon Activities organizer(s) from the Chairs so that you can coordinate volunteers to avoid over scheduling anyone. (Some parents may also have older children and are being asked to help at that time with them.) Suggest some events you think the children would like, such as:

• Reading Aloud/Books on Tape (You may need a portable tape player)
• Games at Playscape
• Singing and Dancing
• Circle Games
• Dress-up (if you feel like bringing out some extra clothes! A few hats or shirts work wonders with imagination)

Parents may wish to drop by during Social Hour to see how things are going. It is a short walk down the back stairs of Newton to the deck. However, no one may bring alcoholic beverages.

In the past, Jr. and Mid Teens have offered to help out with baby-sitting. You might want to check with the leaders of those groups to see if they will get volunteers for you.

1999 - Movies were used for the kids. Responses from the evaluations indicated that parents would prefer more physical activities for the kids.

Margy Levine Young 1989, Mary Haslinger 1990, 1991, 1992, C&C 1996, S&B 1997, K&D 2000, C&B 2001, MELD 2002, T&I 2004, S&J 2006